綜合教程2課文翻譯A-Woman-Can-Learn-Anything-a-Man-Can(Unit6TextA)

1、Unit 6 Woman, Half the SkyCarolyn Turk works in a profession that has traditionally been a career for men. Here she talks about how she came to do so and how her success just goes to show that a woman can learn anything a man can.卡洛琳特克從事的職業(yè)傳統(tǒng)上一直是男人們的天下。在本文，她談到自己是如何干上這一行的，并通過她的成功說明男人們能學會的事女人們也能做到。Tex

2、t A A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man CanCarolyn Turk 男人學得會的，女人也學得會卡羅琳·特克1When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didn't have any toy trucks, G. I. Joes or

3、 basketballs. We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we weren't. 我小的時候臥室里的每樣東西都是粉紅色的。我有兩個姐妹，我們有一個一應俱全的微型廚房，一群各種顏色的小馬駒，還有好幾個芭比和凱恩玩具娃娃。我們沒有玩具卡車，沒有玩具大兵，也沒有籃球。我們確實有一套空心棒球，但是很難再我們的游戲室找到，畢竟我們不是假小子。2So some people may find it ironic that

4、I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math and science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid el

5、ectric vehicle - that's where I learned how to fix cars. I'm proud to say that I got A's in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. I've always been pretty good at math and design, but I didn't understand where that could take me. I was expect

6、ed to go to college, but no one ever told me I'd make a good engineer someday.資料個人收集整理，勿做商業(yè)用途 正因為如此，有些人對我長大后成了一名機械工程師也許感到出乎意外。事實上，我是我公司里唯一的一個女工程師。為了取得大學文憑，我要上許多數(shù)學和自然科學方面的課程。我還得和幾個學生一起工作，作為參與一次全國性競賽的一局部，把一輛消耗汽油特多的運動型多用途汽車改裝成混合型電動車就是這樣我學會了修汽車。我可以自豪的說，我門門功課都是A，包括多變量微積分和微分方程。我的數(shù)學和設計總是相當好，但是我不知道這些會給我

7、帶來什么樣的結(jié)果。家里要我上大學，但是沒人告訴我有一天會成為一名優(yōu)秀的工程師。3When I was in high school, I didn't know the first thing about engineering. I couldn't have distinguished a transmission from an alternator. The car I drove needed some work but I was afraid to take it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic co

8、uld have shown me an electric can opener and said, "This is part of your car and it's broken - pay me to fix it," and I wouldn't have known any better.資料個人收集整理，勿做商業(yè)用途 我上高中時對工程一無所知。我那時不能區(qū)分變速器和交流發(fā)電機。我開的車需要修理，但是我不敢把車開到修理工那里，因為說實話，如果修理工給我看一把電動開罐器并對我說：“這是你的汽車部件，壞了你付錢我給你修，我也不會知道他在敲詐。4At

9、the end of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program designed to interest girls in engineering. The six-week program was free, and students were given college credit and a dorm room at the University of Maryland. I applied to the program, not because I wanted to be an engineer, b

10、ut because I was craving independence and wanted to get out of my parents' house for six weeks. 我在高中第三年末的時候，聽說有一個暑期班，專門培養(yǎng)女孩對工程的興趣。課程六周，不用繳費。學生還可以獲得大學學分，還可以享受馬里蘭大學學生宿舍一個房間。我申請參加這個暑期班，這倒不是因為我想當工程師，而是因為我渴望獨立，想離開父母的房子自己單獨過上六周。5I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The n

11、ext year I entered the university as an engineering major. Five years later I had a degree and three decent job offers. 我被這個暑期班錄取了，得到了六個工程學分。第二年我上了這個大學，主修工程。五年后我獲得了學位，還有三個像樣的就業(yè)時機。6I can't help shuddering when I hear about studies that show that women are at a disadvantage when it comes to math.

12、They imply that I am somehow abnormal. I'm not, but I do know that if I hadn't stumbled into that summer program, I wouldn't be an engineer. 聽到有研究說明女性學數(shù)學處于劣勢，我不禁不寒而栗。他們的言下之意是我有點反常。我一點也不反常，但是我知道，要不是我偶然闖進了那個暑期班，我是成不了工程師的。7When I was growing up I was told, as many students are, to do what I

13、 am best at. But I didn't know what that was. Most people think that when you are good at something, it comes easily to you. But this is what I discovered: just because a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to g

14、et good at it. Once you do, there's a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.文檔來自于網(wǎng)絡搜索 像許多學生一樣，我成長過程中，就有人告訴我要做自己最擅長的事。但是我不知道自己最擅長的是什么。許多人認為，如果你擅長某件事，那你就能輕而易舉的把它學好。但是我的發(fā)現(xiàn)是：某一門課程難學，并不意味著你不擅長它。你得咬緊牙加倍努力干，才能學好它。一旦你學好了，你就可能喜歡上它，從中得到無與倫比的樂趣。8In eighth grade I took algebra. On one test

15、 I got only 36 percent of the answers correct. I failed the next one, too. I started to think, maybe I'm just no good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didn't take my bad grades as a judgment of my abilities, but simply as an indication that I should study more. He pulled me

16、aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me retake the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an A.資料個人收集整理，勿做商業(yè)用途 八年級時我修代數(shù)，有一次考試我只答對了百分之三十六的題目。接下去一次考試我又不及格。于是我想，也許我確實不擅長代數(shù)。值得慶幸的是我有一位老師，他沒有根據(jù)我的低分來衡量我的能力，而認為低分只表示我應該下更大的功夫。他把我叫到一旁，告訴我他知道我能學得更好。他讓我重考，這次我把成績提高到A。9I studied a lot in college, too.

17、I had moments of panic while sitting underneath the buzzing fluorescent lights in the engineering library on Saturday afternoons, when I worried that the estrogen in my body was preventing me from understanding thermodynamics. But the guys in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I co

18、uldn't afford to lose confidence in myself. I didn't want to choose between my femininity and a good career. So I reminded myself that those studies, the ones that say that math comes more naturally to men, are based on a faulty premise: that you can judge a person's abilities separate f

19、rom the cultural cues that she has received since she was an infant. No man is an island. No woman is, either.文檔來自于網(wǎng)絡搜索 我在大學也很努力。星期六下午坐在工程圖書館吱吱作響的熒光燈下學習時，我也有過恐懼的時候，擔憂我體內(nèi)的雌激素阻礙我理解熱動力學。但是我班上的男生也同樣要下功夫，我知道我不能對自己喪失信心。我不想在女生的嬌柔和一個好職業(yè)中間兩者只取其一。因此我提醒自己，宣稱男性天生更能學好數(shù)學的研究是基于一個錯誤的前提，那就是認為人們可以脫離一個人從孩提時代就受到社會的文化熏陶

20、而徑直判斷她的能力。男人不是孤島，女人也不是。10Why are we so quick to limit ourselves? I'm not denying that most little girls love dolls and most little boys love videogames, and it may be true that some people favor the right side of their brain, and others the left. But how relevant is that to me, or to anyone, as an individual? Instead of translating our differences into hard and fast conclusions about the human brain, why can't we focus instead on how incredibly flexible we are? Instead of using what we know as a reason why women can't learn physics,